Marie 'Missie' Vassiltchikov as a White Russian emigree caught with her family in Hitler's Germany at the outbreak of the war. She was part of the cosmopolitan set who managed to maintain a trance-like normality until as late as 1941. Before long, however, Missie became sickened by the nature of Nazi-rule.
Marie Vassiltchikov Libri
29 dicembre 1916 – 12 agosto 1978
